You may have readed in the news the last week that if you mircowave your sponges for two minutes, you will kill 99% of a range of bacteria, viruses and parasites on kitchen sponges.ﾃつ Well what they forgot to tell you, is that the sponges should be wet and have no metal in them.ﾃつ [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Microwaving Sponges to kill germs
Published by January 25th, 2007 in Health, In the News and UAE. 0 CommentsMuslim Girl Magazine
Published by January 23rd, 2007 in Books, Links, Style, Teens and UAE. 0 CommentsI found this magazine in the US, and I think it is wonderful to have such a magazine. Living in the US has to be a hard thing for some Muslims, and especially teen-age girls.ﾃつ Well it seems that they have creative this magazine and website, to help girls.
Every girl no matter where they [...]
Ear tubes not needed to promote learning, study shows
Published by January 23rd, 2007 in Baby, Development, Family, Health, In the News, Preschoolers, Toddler and UAE. 0 CommentsFor a long time it was believed that if a child had many ear infections or had a severe infection, had to get tubes put in their ears.ﾃつ Now a new study says that may not be necessary.ﾃつ The study done by Pittsburgh-based researchers says that the tubes made little differences in language [...]
Emirates Airline has changed their bag of goodies
Published by January 11th, 2007 in Baby, Family, In the News, Places to Go, Preschoolers, Style, Things to Do, Toddler, Travel and UAE. 0 CommentsEmirates has changed their bag of goodies for the children on long haul flights.ﾃつ It seems that Emirates is really trying to cater to the families that fly with them.ﾃつ You can find more about what they offer at business.maktoob.com.
Emirates has a surprise for children traveling on board their long haul flights. From [...]
Consumer Report of Infant Rear Facing Car Seats.
Published by January 5th, 2007 in Baby, Family, Gear, Health, In the News, Travel and UAE. 0 CommentsCNN has a story about Consumer Reports’ newest study regarding Infant Rear Facing Car Seats (here they have recommendations on how to better to keep your child safe in a car seat.)ﾃつ You may want to take a look at their study, if your child is using one of these seats…
The magazine crash-tested 12 [...]
Myths about Children Watching TV
Published by January 5th, 2007 in Baby, Development, Family, Health, In the News, Technology and UAE. 0 CommentsLos Angeles Times-Washington Post News story in the Gulf News, Watching TV makes children smarter?ﾃつ This article covers different myths about children watching TV.
1. TV makes children dumb
Actually, high-quality TV shows such as Sesame Street and Blues Clues improve children’s cognitive abilities. Study after study has shown that children 3 to 5 years old [...]
Call to improve early education in Arab world
Published by January 5th, 2007 in Development, Education, In the News, Preschoolers and UAE. 0 CommentsAnother story today in the Gulf News is, Call to improve early education in Arab world, in which they talk about investing more in pre-primary schooling, as some countries have been moving slow for the last 30 years.
“There has been some progress as far as government involvement in Pre Primary Education [PPE] is concerned in [...]
Juggling Children and Work
Published by January 5th, 2007 in Development, Education, Family, In the News, Preschoolers, Toddler and UAE. 0 CommentsThe Gulf News has a story from The Christian Science Monitor, Juggling Children and Work.ﾃつ This story is about parents juggling their child’s after school activities.ﾃつ My question to you, do you have this problem here in the UAE.ﾃつ Do you have a hard time finding a good balance for after school [...]
Child Development and Parent Information
Published by January 4th, 2007 in Baby, Development, Education, Family, Health, Links, Preschoolers, Toddler and UAE. 0 CommentsThis is a really nice website, to help parents to understand, the different developmental milestones that their children are going through. Child Development and Parent Information is brought to you from Child Development Institute.ﾃつ They cover speech or Language Development, ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Education, Parenting Issue, Child/Teen Health and Safety. I hope you enjoy [...]
Happy New Year everyone! Let’s hope 2007 brings a lot of blessings.
